Symbols
The provincial seal shows an elephant holding an ear of rice with its trunk. This symbolizes the fertile rice fields as well as the forests with numerous elephants. In the background two piles of straw, trees and clouds symbolize the natural beauty of the province.
Provincial flower and tree is the Silk-Cotton Tree (Cochlospermum religiosum).
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“I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.”
—José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)
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—C. John Sommerville (20th century)
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—Savinien Cyrano De Bergerac (1619–1655)